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+[[!meta title="DNA repeats lead to the accelerated loss of gene order in bacteria."]]
+[[!tag synteny]]
+
+Rocha, Eduardo P C.
+
+Trends Genet. 2003 Nov;19(11):600-3. doi:10.1016/j.tig.2003.09.011
+
+DNA repeats lead to the accelerated loss of gene order in bacteria.
+
+[[!pmid 14585609 desc="Defines a Gene Order Conservation (GOC) number as: “the average number of orthologues for which the consecutive orthologue co-occurs close by in the other genome. It varies between 0 (no co-occurrence) and 1 (complete gene order conservation)”."]]
- The ancestral amniote has 49 chromosomes ([[Sacerdot and coll., 2018|biblio/30333059]]).
+### Computational aspects
+
+ - [[Rocha (2003)|biblio/14585609]] defines a Gene Order Conservation (GOC)
+ number as: “the average number of orthologues for which the consecutive
+ orthologue co-occurs close by in the other genome. It varies between 0 (no
+ co-occurrence) and 1 (complete gene order conservation)”.
+
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